Thursday, June 26, 2014

Dying churches Why are the more liberal mainline Protestant denominations seemingly bleeding members? (R. Nial Bradshaw [edited]) Almost every day conservative Christians are told that if we don't become more enlightened and progressive, we will become irrelevant to society as our numbers continue to decline.

In reality, the opposite is true: We will only be relevant to the extent we honor God and hold fast to biblical truth, which is why the more "progressive" and "enlightened churches" are the ones losing members the most rapidly.

God will back His gospel, not some man-made, watered-down message.God will back the exaltation of Jesus, not some muddled, every-path-leads-to-God nonsense.God will back the call to take up the cross and live for Him, not some flesh-pleasing success formula.God will back biblical standards, not some meet-me-halfway, worldly-wise compromise.